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Work at the Fundraising Regulator to inform and protect the public and support excellent fundraising standards. Our purpose is to make sure that people can have confidence and trust in fundraisers so ...
Fundraising Levy
Find information about the fundraising levy, including who pays, fee calculations and how it supports regulation.
Our fee structure
Learn about Fundraising Regulator registration fees for charities and non-charity organisations across the UK.
Non charity registration
Commercial businesses, Community Interest Companies (CICs) and public interest bodies that engage in charitable fundraising can apply to register with the Fundraising Regulator.
Charity registration
Charities that fundraise in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can apply to register with the Fundraising Regulator. If your charity spends over £100,000 on fundraising each year, we will invite your...
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Our cookies policy sets out how we use cookies, which cookies we consider to be essential and non-essential and how you can opt out of their use.
Reporting your own organisation
If you are aware of a known or potential breach of the Code of Fundraising Practice and have the authority to report this on behalf of a charitable fundraising organisation, you can tell the Fundraisi...
Corporate publications
We publish our annual reports and accounts, business plans and strategic plans in order to be open and accountable about our work.
Annual Complaints Report
The Fundraising Regulator’s Annual Complaints Report presents insights from our casework alongside complaints reported by a sample of the UK’s largest fundraising charities. This report analyses data ...
The Fundraising Badge
Are you thinking of donating to or raising funds for a charity? Look out for the Fundraising Badge. When you see it, you can have confidence in a charity’s fundraising.
Updates to the Code of Fundraising Practice
This page lists the updates made to the Code of Fundraising Practice.
Webinars
To support charities to understand and meet the fundraising standards, the Fundraising Regulator is producing a series of digestible and informative webinars on the Code of Fundraising Practice.
Fundraising Preference Service code breaches
Some charities are breaching the Code of Fundraising Practice by failing to access these requests and suppress people on their marketing databases.
Access your FPS suppressions
The Code of Fundraising Practice specifies that charities must stop sending direct marketing communications to individuals after an FPS request has been received. If you do not stop these types of com...
Manage unwanted charity communications
The Fundraising Preference Service is a free service, run by the Fundraising Regulator, that can help you or someone you know to end contact with charities that you no longer want to hear from.
Fundraising Preference Service
The Fundraising Preference Service is a free service, run by the Fundraising Regulator, that can help you or someone you know to end contact with charities that you no longer want to hear from. The...
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The Fundraising Regulator is a registered company limited by guarantee in England and Wales, which is governed by articles of association.
Our committees
Our board is guided by recommendations from three committees: the Complaints and Investigations Committee, the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee; and the Standards Committee.
Memorandums of Understanding
We have memorandums of understanding with other organisations where there are issues of mutual interest or concern. These set out how we intend to work together to achieve efficiency and clarify our r...
About us
The Fundraising Regulator is the independent regulator of charitable fundraising in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Our copyright and legal notice sets out the permissions and limitations for use of information on this website.
Code of Fundraising Practice
The Code of Fundraising Practice sets the standards that apply to fundraising conducted by all charitable institutions and third-party fundraisers in the UK.
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Standards: All fundraising
Behaviour when fundraising
Responsibilities of those who govern charitable institutions
Processing donations
Standards: Working with others
Volunteers
Fundraising involving children and people in vulnerable circumstances
Fundraising partnerships
Standards: Specific fundraising methods
Public fundraising
Fundraising communications and advertising
Online fundraising platforms
Events
Prize competitions and free draws
Grant-making bodies (including trusts and foundations)
Payroll Giving and post-tax salary donations
Legacies
Index
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